Comments on: Snowbeast (1977)

By: Darren

Darren — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 00:01:08 +0000

I remember watching this movie the first time it aired. I was the impressionable age of 11 and already was caght-up in the bigfoot craze by then. I remembered how “scary” that movie was to a kid that “knew there was definatly a bigfoot that lived in the 7 acre woods behind my parents house”,right on the edge of town, next to a collage and a heavally populated neiborhood. Then, after seeing that once, I never so much as even heard it mentioned again. That was until I was bored one rainy afternoon, and decided to look it up on the internet. Suprise! Not only was it mentioned, But I could actually purchase a dvd of it for a whopping $3.00. (It must have been based on a true story to cost that much.) After waiting aniouxly waiting for its arrival to my door, I broke out the popcorn,sent my young kids to the other room(Afterall,this was the very movie that I had “day-mares” about every time I looked towards the woods behind my folks house,I certainly didnt want to traumatize my own children)And I settled in to relive the horror of this monumental picture… There were two redeaming qualities to this movie.The skin tite snow pants suspending Yvette Mimieux’ perfectally shaped tush, And some really good footage of the brand new (in 1977)Arctic cat snowmobiles,As I am a collector of vintage arctic cats. I’ve had forgotton that Robert Logan was in this,But then again his wildeness family movies were pretty sappy in and of themselves. But I couldn’t bare to watch Clint Walker “sream like a schoolgirl” when he was attacked by the beast. I mean,come on. Next to Fess Parker,Clint walker was the on-screen version of my Dad when I was a kid. And there was no way my dad would have squeeled like that. As for the rest of the movie. Well,Lets just say that the stories that I conjured up about the sasquatch running around the woods behind our house were much more believable, Not to mention the fact that my stories didnt include the soap opera-ish yaw yaw this movie did, Or did they contain 45 minutes worth of skiing untill the monster showed up. Anyways, Thanks for this site,Its been a gas. I’d like to chat longer,but I’ve got to go put the trash out. Gee, I hope the outside lite still works.I’ve never noteced hoe dark that clump of trees in the neibor’s yard gets at nite.

By: Zach

Zach — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:33:13 +0000

I think the look of the monster was pretty cool. I haven’t seen this film for a while, but I can tell you what I really did’nt like, the shacky POv shots.Except for the end,how did they drop a camera down a cliff without damaging it or showing the thing it probably landed on to keep it from getting damaged.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 08:33:10 +0000

To be honest, I don’t think they had the budget for explosions. This movie is utterly low budget in every department, but still manages to unabashedly ape Jaws in nearly every department:

Unknown menace (shark / beast)
Disbelieving Local Authorities (Mayor / Gma Rill)
Hired “hit man” (Quint / Gar)
Monster hunt “headquarters” (Quint’s boat “Orca” / Tony’s camper)

Actually, following that line of thought, since Quint was eaten and Sheriff Brody killed the shark in Jaws, shouldn’t Gar have been killed and then Tony been forced to kill the Beast?

By: oneeye

oneeye — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 02:24:23 +0000

I think the snow beast should have eaten the snow queen, THAT might have livened things up! And if they were trying to stay true to the Jaws theme, shouldn’t the snow beast have been blown up? Maybe they could have trapped it in the apparently important barn, set the barn on fire, and then had a good explosion. ( you know, like when grain silo’s explode)

By: guts3d

guts3d — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 13:42:39 +0000

Did they forget the ” I want to go home ” drunken song?